'Bahut Chatur Baniya': What Amit Shah Called Mahatma Gandhi

New Delhi, Jun 10 Attacking BJP chief Amit Shah for describing Mahatma Gandhi as a "chatur baniya", Opposition parties today demanded that he should apologise to the nation and insisted that the "denigrating" remark is withdrawn.

President Amit Shah on 9 June called the leader of the Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi a "bahut chatur baniya", after which he got tremendously trolled on Twitter.

Targeting Shah for his comments and citing BJP and Sangh proximity, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala addressing a press conference in Delhi said that before Independence, Britain used Sangh and Mahasabha as "special objective vehicle" to divide and rule India.

Shah was speaking to a group of "eminent persons" on the second day of his three-day visit to the state. Amit Shah called Congress a special objective vehicle formed to secure freedom and being a clever "baniya" (meaning merchant) Gandhi knew the bleak future of Congress.

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